USDA Quantifies Tight Hay Supply
If Matt Diersen were a dairy producer in a Great Lakes state, he might hold off on filling his wintertime hay needs. Hay production is up significantly...
GPS Collars Track Cattle On Range
In 1981, Doug Johnson began studying the way grazing animals move around their pastures. Twenty years later, he added a new twist. We started using GPS...
Diet Corn Silage
Boosting corn silage levels in rations has proved to be a great strategy for pushing dairy heifer weights at calving to 1,300 lbs or more and age at first...
Dry Distillers Grains Raise Digestibility, Feed Intake
Feeding a dry distillers grains supplement with smooth bromegrass increased total dry matter digestibility and feed intake, according to Iowa State University researchers...
Nitrogen Helps Make Bermudagrass More Digestible
Nitrogen fertilizer can increase bermudagrass digestibility, according to a study by researchers at the USDA-ARS Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, GA...
Managing Monensin
Adding monensin sodium, also known as Rumensin, to a milking ration can cost you 2-4/cow/day. But it will raise energy-corrected milk yield by 8-12/day...
Profitable Partners
Chris Lamb says he gets good, low-cost replacement heifer gains with a silage mixture of corn and soybean forage. After the heifers are bred, in fact...
Portion Control
Lower feed costs, less manure and fewer over-conditioned heifers are the top reasons to consider limit feeding, says Pat Hoffman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Tasty In Texas
Triticale, once labeled by some as a poor substitute for corn and other silages, is scoring high with Texas dairies. For David Hinders, Canyon, triticale...
Friendlier Fiber
More than a few dairy producers have experimented with cutting corn silage hybrids higher than normal in an effort to improve digestibility...
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